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No. 540,639. Patented June .11, 1895.

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i JAMES I. COMLY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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i SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,639, dated June11, 1895.

Apenas@ tied Api-i12, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES I. COMLY, of the city f Philadelphia and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new andr useful Improvement inHouses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andeX- act description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention has relation to the construction of houses and itsadvantages are manifestin such as have front and back buildings and arebuilt in rows with a house orrbuilding adjoining them on each side, andconsists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed whereby ahouse has front and back buildings in which the front building of thefirst story islonger than the front building of the second or upperstories, and in which the rear wall of the front building ot the secondand upper stories .is in front of therear wall of the first story frontbuilding and over the back room of the rst story front building; and theside wall of the back building in the second or upper stories isextended frontward also over the back room of the first story frontbuilding to the back wall of the front building of the second or upperstories.

The object of my invention is to provide a ioor spacein all the storiesof such a size and shape as to admit of convenient, symmetrical,well-lighted, and desirable interior divisions, and at the same time toeconomize in space and cost of construction.

In houses, as above mentioned,built in rows with front and backbuildings, as usually constructed, the first story of the front buildingcontains the parlor and hall, while the dining-room is generally in theback building and is poorly lighted, the length of the parlor beinginthis construction the length of the front building in all the storiesand is insufficient to make two, desirable-sized vrooms over it in eachof the second and upper stories. In my constructionthe front building ismade long enough in the first story to contain the parlor and hall,together with a dining-room in the rear. The same-sized front buildingin the second and upper stories would be undesirable, as the back one ofthe two rooms into which it would be divided in each story semina427,438. (No man dining-room, places the bath-room, while in the backbuilding of Vthe second story, over the front building of the firststory, giving it .a communicating door with the back room ot the frontbuilding and thus allowing the back stairway, by being placed back ofthe bath room, to have alanding in the first story back of the diningroom, and at the same time, by using the space of the ceiling .of theback part of the 'front building of the irst story left uncovered bymaking the front building in the second and upper stories shorter thanin the first story as a skylight or window in addition to the otherwindow, giving to the d ining-room much greater and sufcient light. Inthis construction, when the width instead of the length of the diningroom, as in the old way, is part of the length of the house, the totallength is shortened; consequently the cost of construction isdiminished. In Reissue Letters Patent No.`1l,304, dated February '7,1893, issued to me,I have claimed one method of construction wherebythis result is obtained, and my present invention relates to anotherconstruction to obtain the same result.

In the accompanying drawings similar let- 'tersof reference refertosimilar parts throughout.

' Figure l is a plan View of the iirst iioor ot the building containingmy improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the second floor.

Fig. 3 isa side elevation of a building con` one end in the wall, C, ofthe back building at or near the level ofthe second fioor of the frontbuilding and extends longitudinally preferably on a line with the sideWall, C, to a point beyond the girder G preferably at or near thepartition dividing the front from the back room of the first story ofthe front building and is supported upon apier, P, or a cross-girder, orby said partition, or other suitable means. The cross girder, G', issupported at one end in the Wall, A, at or near the level of the secondfloor of the front building at a desirable distance from the rear wall,B', of the front building of first storysay six or seven feet-andextends latitudinally to the point of intersection with the lougitudinal girdcr, G, to which it is secured by braces, bolting orotherwise, and by which it is at that end supported. Upon the gir-der,G', is built the rear wall, B2, of the second or upper floors of thefront building, While the side wall, C, of the second and upper storiesof the back building is continued and built upon a portion of the girderG, and connected with the Wall, B2. It will thus be seen that the secondand upper stories of the front building will not extend as far rearwardas the first story of the front building. By this construction, thesecond story front building can be divided into symmetrical rooms ofnearly equal size, while the rooms of the first story front building canbe properly proportioned for parlor and dining room. The rear room ofthe ilrst story of the main building which is above termed thedining-room, can be advantageously lighted by a skylight S, constructedin the space where the wall B2 recedes. A window may also be provided inthe rear wall B.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a dwelling house, a combination of the longitudinal wall, A, thelongitudinal wall, C, and the partition, F, between the parlor anddining room, the longitudinal girder, G, one end being supported by thewall, C, the other end by a pier, cross girderor otherwise, the shorttransverse girder, G', one end supported by the wall, A, the other bythe girder, G, the rear wall,B2, of the main building in the secondstory being supported by the girder, G', and a portion of the side wall,C, of the back building in the second story being supported by thegirder, G, arranged in the manner and for the purpose substantially asdescribed. i

2. A dwelling house having front and back buildings in which the firststory front building is constructed into afront room or parlor and ahallway together with a back room or dining-room in the rear, and inwhich the second story front building is shortened and the second storyback building is lengthened by dividingr between them that part of thelength of the house which in the first storyis the dining-room, byconstructing the wall, B2, on the short transverse girder, G', and apart of the Wall, C, on a portion of the longitudinal girder, G, and inwhich the full Width and part of the length of the back room of thesecond story front building extends over a portion of the dining-room,substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of April,1892.

JAMES I. COMLY.

IVitnesses:

HORACE PETTIT, J. HENDERSON.

